Founded in 1868 by the Cambridge scholars John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (1825–1910), William George Clark (1821–78), and William Aldis Wright (1831–1914), this biannual journal was a successor to The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology (also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection). Unlike its short-lived precursor, it survived for more than half a century, until 1920, spanning the period in which specialised academic journals developed from more general literary reviews. Predominantly classical in subject matter, with contributions from such scholars as J. P. Postgate, Robinson Ellis and A. E. Housman, the journal also contains articles on historical and literary themes across the 35 volumes, illuminating the growth and scope of philology as a discipline during this period. Volume 3, comprising issues 5 and 6, was published in 1871.

Table of Contents:
On an Accadian seal; On the end of the epistle to the Romans; On the Enneakrunos at Athens; On the lengthening of short final syllables in Vergil; On Aeneas' voyage round Sicily; On the chronology of St John V and VI; Note on the 'Arzareth' of 4 Esdr. XIII, 45; On Lucretius, Book VI; A theory of Job XIX, 25–27; On the history of the Ravenna manuscript of Aristophanes; Notes on Thucydides and the Acharnians of Aristophanes; Notes on the Supplices of Aeschylus; On the Athenian proedri; On the sixth satire of Persius; On a Theban inscription at the fountain of Dirce; The epistle to the Romans; Thought, word and deed; The eastern origin of the Christian pseudepigraphic writings; Prof. Munro's notes on Juvenal I, 13, and on Aetna 590; The Roman Capitol, as laid down in Mr Burn's 'Rome and the Campagna'; Acts XXI, 37, 38; On Lucretius, Book VI; A passage in Oedipus Rex; Two passages in Vergil; Westphal's Methodische Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache; Notes on the translations of Genesis; An introduction to Greek and Latin etymology; Horatiana; On two triple readings in the New Testament.